Alone Quote by Nouriel Roubini

People think rationally that the world really is more risky. Imagine in 2008 that investors thought there was a 10% chance we'd have a…

— Eugene Fama

One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and…

— Robert J. Samuelson

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

— Yogi Berra

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

— Jeremy Grantham

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

— Paul Samuelson

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

— James Altucher

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to…

— George Soros

If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's going to…

— Benjamin Graham

“Financial crises—and most other failures of prediction—stem from this false sense of confidence.”

— Nate Silver

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government…

— Marc Faber

We're not very good at forecasting, and we don't know how to measure the impact of economic policy.

— Edgar Fiedler